| 词条 | Evolution and the Humanities |
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| name = Evolution and the Humanities | title_orig = | translator = | image = | caption = | author = David Holbrook | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = | language = | series = | subject = Evolution | genre = | publisher = Gower Publishing Company | pub_date = 1987 | english_pub_date = | media_type = | pages = 228 | isbn = | oclc = | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}Evolution and the Humanities is a 1987 book by David Holbrook that attacks Darwinian evolution. The book rejects reductionist biology and takes influence from Michael Polanyi and vitalist philosophy.[1] ReceptionThe book has been heavily criticized by academics. Martin Stuart-Fox noted that Holbrook's criticism of natural selection was a "cobble together, in a sort of scissors-and-paste criticism... the book contains no vigorous argument at all. Not only is Holbrook very obviously no scientist, he is no philosopher either."[2] Ecologist Arthur M. Shapiro in a review for the National Center for Science Education commented: David Holbrook, Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, has written a polemic not so much against evolution as against scientific reductionism (which he sees incarnate in neo-Darwinism). He proceeds from revulsion at the existentialist vision of "life as a 'scientific accident.' " He's no creationist but, rather, a from-the-gut free-form vitalist—just as preoccupied with the perceived moral consequences of the Darwinian revolution as any Bible-thumping moralist could be. As usual, he conflates science with scientism and evolution with evolutionism, materialism, and atheism."[1] The book is said to have been poorly edited and riddled with errors.[3] References1. ^1 "Evolution and the Humanities". National Center for Science Education. {{evolution-book-stub}}2. ^Stuart-Fox, Martin. (1988). Evolution and the Humanities by David Holbrook. The Centennial Review. Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 318-319. 3. ^Barton, Ruth. (1989). Reviewed Works: Theories of Human Evolution: A Century of Debate, 1844-1944 by Peter J. Bowler; Evolution and the Humanities by David Holbrook; The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century by David Knight. Victorian Studies. Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 276-278. 3 : 1988 books|Books about evolution|Non-Darwinian evolution |
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